Cellular and Molecular Immune Response to Chikungunya Virus Infection
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emergent arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) that causes a disease characterized primarily by fever, rash and severe persistent polyarthralgia.In the last decade, CHIKV has become a serious public health problem causing several outbreaks around the world.Despite the fact that CHIKV has been around since 1952, our kno